You can see Mars as rarely viewed in new NASA spacecraft photos - Yahoo

What the report says

USA Today reported that NASA has released new images of Mars taken by the Psyche spacecraft during a May 15 flyby, offering an unusual perspective on the planet as the probe used Mars’ gravity to adjust its course. The spacecraft passed about 2,800 miles above the Martian surface while carrying out the maneuver, and NASA made the processed images public on July 17 after weeks of downlinking and review.

Psyche is traveling to a metal-rich asteroid, also called Psyche, in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. According to the report, the spacecraft launched in October 2023 on a six-year, roughly 2.2 billion-mile mission and is expected to reach its target by the end of 2029. Scientists hope studying the asteroid will help them better understand planetary interiors, including Earth’s core, because direct observation of Earth’s core is not possible.

The Mars encounter served a practical mission purpose as well as producing images. USA Today, citing NASA, reported that the flyby acted like a gravitational slingshot, increasing Psyche’s speed and helping set its trajectory toward the asteroid while conserving propellant and reducing demands on the spacecraft’s propulsion system. NASA also released a time-lapse video of the approach and departure.

The article noted that Mars is often shown as a red disk or in surface imagery, while Psyche’s viewpoint provided less common views of the planet from a spacecraft briefly passing by on its way deeper into the solar system.